These days the control panel toggle (‘Enable HDR’) is effective if you flip it before launching games (earlier, I ended up restarting as settings got stuck). I’ve had it dual-monitor between a PC monitor and HDR TV and it absolutely positively hates that; lately I’ve just left the monitor cable unplugged as it’s easier.
There’s an outstanding bug where desktop alerts drawn on top of fullscreen, HDR-enabled programs bug the color space – for example, changing windows volume and getting the widget, or a notification coming in on top of an HDR game. Generally alt-tabbing fixes this but there are cases where it leaves non-HDR rendering borked (in super-saturated color space) and only a system reset fixes it.
Getting non-HDR programs to look correct in HDR mode is tough; color tends to look a bit faded as my TV seems to be expected saturation to come natively. Combined with those bugs, I tend to leave HDR off until I run an HDR program.
But it’s 95% stable to just flip the HDR toggle before running an HDR game, and that’s a world better than it was before. And HDR is such a massive visual upgrade on a proper display that it’s well worth the hassle.
I’ve pretty much left this toggle on with exactly this setup for the past year or so and I’ve only had a problem with DMC5 starting with broken colours on the non-HDR display until I alt tab away from it once, and Sekiro running at 15FPS for no reason. not bad really!
I got paranoid last month and got a plastic wrap thing for my 2016 MBP to try to protect it from dust (although the only problem I ever had was the T key being incredibly noisy for a few months until it cleared up on its own)
I bought Apple airpods for listening to podcasts while walking my dog, but I think I’ll return them. They’re uncomfortable and I do find absence of noise-cancelling unbearable even for a semi-noisy environment (I hate how an occasional car going by drowns out 3 seconds of what I’m listening to).
I just ordered Sony WI1000X/B neckbuds – I’ll suck up the micro-USB charging as it might be years before a noise-cancelling + USB-C combination appears.
Yeah I have some noise cancelers from Audio Technica and their cancellation is so good, its tough to deal with regular headphones, outside of the house.
goddammit, that was going to be the Arch distro I was going to try out
BACKSTORY: I found a Thinkpad X220 (“found”) (it missed my work’s e-recycling bin by a bit and I asked if I could take it and I’m buddies with the loading dock security folks) and now I’m just using it to probably distrohop like an ashsole. I’ve got Pop OS on it now but I wanted to try something not Debian/Ubuntu-based
I guess I’ll get really drunk and summon Gentoo onto the drive
you can still install with manjaro and then just change your sources to reflect upstream arch (manjaro stages everything whereas antergos was just arch + a nice installer + additional sources) which is 99% comparable but I always liked antergos’ UEFI customizations and such a little better
I already know that Gentoo is the domain of the /g/ meme squad and honestly I’m kind of joking because from what I’ve gathered, it’s more useful to do Linux From Scratch than something like Gentoo for learning the in and outs
Emulate Breath of The Wild in Cemu and crank teh graphix. BSOD gaming on youtube, has the best BoTW Cemu videos to learn how to use it and also to see what’s possible. There are mods, too. You can play the entire game as Zelda, with every single piece of armor/clothing modded to look appropriate.
This is a pretty great total conversion/new content mod for Skyrim
Use Reshade on everything. Reshade is full of all kinds of great shaders. You can go heavy handed or tasteful. Here’s what I did with Dark Souls 3.
and its very easy to use nowadays. No more alt-tabbing or quitting and reloading. It now injects a real time interface, so you can tweak and see the changes update. Its even better now, than when I made that DS3 preset.
There’s a new shader out by Mcfly, which adds path traced screen space global illumination, reflections, and ambient occlusion (its hardware agnostic), all at once. Its super tweakable, so the results vary, depending on how much care you take. It also seems to depend on how much the original game actually does with depth based and screenspace lighting *its currently a patreaon pay option. But will be free and part of reshade, in like a month. Here are some video examples:
